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Launch of the Galvanising the Peace Report
Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts
20th September 2017
10 am to 1pm (Lunch will be provided)

A series of community consultations were carried out between 2015 and 2016 to ascertain the views of community groups, community practitioners and wider society on what they saw as obstacles to building a united future. A report was produced entitled Galvanising the Peace.

As part of Community Relations and Cultural Awareness Week, Community Dialogue, TIDES Training and Consultancy and 174 Trust are organising a dialogue event to launch the report and more deeply explore effective responses to some of the issues its raises. This seminar is a joint collaboration between 174 Trust, Community Dialogue and TIDES Training and Consultancy.

Outline of Programme
Introduction of Report: Neil Jarman
Small Group workshops
Themes: Future Peace building Framework and Strategy; Cultural Diversity; Building Trust, Respect and Reconciliation; Women

An exhibition of photographs, multimedia and art works culminating from a series of dialogues wtih young people, many of whom were born around the establishment of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement.

Please see invitation flyer below.

Please see Press Release under News heading.

Book Launch of 'Reformed Always to be Reformed, The Reformations Then and Now' by Johnston McMaster
Friday 7 April 2017 at 10.30 am
Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts, Duncairn Avenue, Belfast BT11 9AS

See attached flyer.

Dialogue Day,Tuesday 21 March 2017

See attached flyer

Gavanising the Peace Residential, Corrymeela, Ballycastle 18 and 19 February 2017
Reconciliation practitioners will come together to discuss the critical issues to achieving a unified, peaceful and prosperous future in Northern Ireland. See Residential Flier below. This forum recently produced a discussion paper called 'Galvanising the Peace' after extensive civic society consultations in 2015-2016. You can download the paper under the heading 'Publications and Reports.

As part of the above event, Community Dialogue,174 Trust and TIDES Training & Consultancy are organising a seminar on 'The Power of Dialogue in Shared Spaces'.

This event will take place on Wednesday 21 September from 9.30 am to 1.00 pm in the Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts, Duncairn Avenue, Belfast. Everyone welcome.

Please see attached flyer at the bottome of this page titled, 'The Power of Dialogue in Shared Spaces".

Invitation to participate in Galvanising the Peace process

Building the peace is not just a laudable aim; it is one of the most complex and toughest too.

There needs to be systemic and structural change, tackling the causes of division and the reasons why sectional and sectarian attitudes continue to prevail. Beyond that, relationship building work is critical for the trust which is a key component of a shared and reconciled society.

We need a vision that takes the best of what we all represent to create something special that hasn’t yet been possible on this part of Ireland and this part of the United Kingdom.

That is why a large number of practitioners and activists within the field of reconciliation have produced a discussion document called Galvanising the Peace. The process has been facilitated by the Community Relations Council but driven by the practitioners. They hope that after extensive discussion with civil society over coming months, a thousand and more voices will identify a way forward for developing the peace process that highlights the critical issues and outlines the key needs.

The process will no doubt engage in civil society participation in government and policy development; in ensuring people are not left behind by the political system (or vice versa); in strengthening trust in the institutions. It may highlight a need for the final dismantling of paramilitarism and the reclaiming of communities by community. It may suggest structural and systemic reform around education and housing.

It will no doubt address the needs for relational change amidst a concern that an erosion of the reconciliation infrastructure is taking place which could have significant, detrimental consequences in years to come.

This feels like a crossing point in the peace process. It is a time that will be judged by history - was there serious intent by everyone to make the peace process work or was it a missed opportunity?

All of us can make a contribution, whether large or small. What we do now will have long term impact on us, our children and our children’s children.

We need to reflect carefully, and find the courage to seize the opportunity rather than miss it.